| DANCEOFTHESUGARPLUMFAIRY | Composition for the ballet 'The Nutcracker' which is played on a celesta (5,2,3,5,4,5) |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino, Italian composer who wrote the music for the ballet The Magic Toyshop (8) |
| JUDO | Sport which is played on board, jack replacing learner (4) |
| HEDWIG | Harry Potter's pet snowy owl, represented in a familiar cinematic theme tune featuring a celesta (6) |
| ESCALATE | Intensify destruction of a celesta (8) |
| TCHAIKOCSKY | Russian composer whose most famous works include The 1812 Overture and the ballet The Nutcracker (11) |
| CLARA | Name of the child protagonist in most productions of the ballet The Nutcracker (5) |
| SUGARPLUM | Dance Of The ____ Fairy, movement in the ballet The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky (5,4) |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | Russian composer whose most famous works included the ballet The Nutcracker (11) |
| ANGLAIS | Paired with "cor", one of the woodwinds forming part of the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's score for the Christmas ballet The Nutcracker that, despite its name, is neither English nor a horn (7) |
| PICKLE | ___ball is a game invented in the 1960s and that is played on a court with paddles and a perforated plastic ball (6) |
| CHANTER | Reed pipe with fingerholes on which the melody is played on a set of bagpipes (7) |
| BASEBALL | Which US team game is played on a diamond-shaped pitch? (8) |
| ETAHOFFMANN | Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker was based on a story by this German author |
| PLUM | Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker, features The Dance Of The Sugar ... Fairy |
| SUGAR | Dance of the - Plum Fairy ; piece for the celesta in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (5) |
| CAROM | ____ billiards is played on a table with no pockets |
| FENCING | Combat sport that is played on a piste (7) |
| POLYNESIA | Around Noel "I spy" is played on a lot of islands (9) |
| FALLA | Composer of the opera La Vida Breve and the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (5) |
